Flickr/NHS Confederation Patrick Soon-Shiong at an NHS Confederation conference. Imagine visiting the doctor’s office for a check-up and watching as the measurements from your blood pressure and heart rate appear instantaneously on a screen at the doctor’s desk. When the doctor comes in, instead of manually comparing your vitals with a chart pasted inside her notebook, she looks to the screen, where the computer has done the work for her, […]

New York: While human milk is the best food for infant, a new study has revealed that it can also work as a medicine for critically ill babies. According to Diane L Spatz, director of the lactation programme at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP): “The immunological and anti-inflammatory properties of human milk are especially important for the critically ill infants in our intensive care units.” The hospital has used donor […]